Improvement in horse hay-fores



To all 'whom it may concern:v

Be it known that I, Dr. DANIEL B. NEAL,'of Mount Gilead, '.in-the county of Morrow, and State of Ohio,

DANIEL B. NEAL, or MOUNT GILEAD, OHIO, AssIeNon To HIMsnLF, W. W.MooLnN AoKEN, .AND E. o. CHASE, oF SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 89,938, dated .Ma/y 11,1869.i

IMPRovEMnNT IN HORSE 'HAY-FORKS. i

have invented a Vnew and improved Horse Hay-Fork; and' do herebydeclare the following'to be a full and correct descriptionof the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, ,which is a perspective view of my improved fork complete.l Myinvention consists in the device herein described for holding and tripping the fork.

In the accompanying drawing- 'll marks the tines of the fork;

B, the back, and p H, the handle of the same.

Staples S S, fixed in the back of the fork, receive the hooked ends of along V-shaped yoke', Y, which extends up far enough to allow the handle H to pass l freely ,under it.

To the 'angle of this yoke is attached the `hoistingrope R. a

Through `the handle H runsa short shaft a, to the front end of which is attached the cross-bar A, and to its rear end the semicircular metallic disk D, whose weight acts to keep its own straight side and the barl* A in a horizontal position.

To one corner of disk D is attached the trip-cord G, by pulling which the disk D and bar A are drawn from a horizontal to an' inclined or upright position, Vand the handle H" is released from the; yoke Y, and left free to fall, in obedience to gravity, and bling the tines A'l into a position to discharge any load they may have been sustaining.

Having thus fully described4 my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 'f ent, is-

and witnessed at Mount Gilead, 0hi0this 31st day l of March, A. D.v1869. p

DB. DANIEL B. NEAL. Witnesses:

JOHN DALRYMPLE, ALLEN DALBYMLPLE. 

